Bake or Roast?
We bake cakes and potatoes and hams. But we roast turkey and beef and vegetables. Do you bake your chicken or roast it? Who decided that a ham is baked but a turkey is roasted? There is no difference is there? Or is there?
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10 Comments:
interesting question and the only answer i can think of is that roasted chicken sounds better than baked chicken.
olddad at 8:13PM on 07/21/09
I thought about this very thing today as my micro/convection combo oven has "convection roast" and "convection bake." Who's to know if I use the wrong one? The oven police???
therealchiffonade at 8:53PM on 07/21/09
baking is for cakes and pies
derosa at 8:56PM on 07/21/09
My unqualified answer would be that roasting is generally done at a higher temperature than baking, but its entirely possible that I'm wrong.
thehostess at 9:01PM on 07/21/09
ah..... i do bake a meatloaf and roast pork .... maybe the term "bake" applies to food that is somewhat prepared in some way ... "roast" might refer to an actual piece of meat? but then again why are vegetables roasted and not baked? maybe the term roasting also means applying a higher heat?
a mystery in the cooking universe, very interesting question..... can't wait to hear more observations....
pooch at 9:05PM on 07/21/09
I thought that roasting was (generally) used with meats, and done at higher temperatures than baking.
finewinendine at 9:20PM on 07/21/09
I'd agree withthe temperature difference; this question and comments so far made me grin, though. Case in point: a lot of 'roasted chicken' strategies/ recipes require 'roasting' the chicken at a rather low-ish temp-- as in, not four hundred plus degrees. Or at least a good portionof the cooking
emilytaylor at 10:23PM on 07/21/09
Wikipedia offeres some good explanations of baking and roasting">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roasting">roasting.
gingercookiewithlime at 10:10AM on 07/22/09
Other than temperature or type of food, does it have anything to do with the type of pan being used - glass, metal; depth, etc. I think the answer is probably no, but I thought I would just put it out there.
Ruffles1 at 11:21AM on 07/22/09
I thought that traditionally, baking was done in an enclosed oven and roasting over a fire.
renzata at 8:40PM on 07/22/09